Hair winding device



May 15 1951 c. F. HARDY 2,553,411 HAIR WINDING DEvIcE Filed Feb. 25, 1948 Patented May 15, 1951 HAIR WIINDING DEVICE Charles Frederick Hardy, Mitcham, England Application February 25, 1948, Serial No. 10,680 In Great Britain January 15, 1947 This invention relates to hair dressing appliances and more particularly to a device for use when giving a permanent wave.

When giving a permanent wave, it is the usual practice to curl the hair by hand which involves winding it on to a curling pin or holder, the hair, in this tight curled position, subsequently being subjected to treatment to produce the permanent wave.

This operation of winding the hair on to the holder is a tedious one since it takes considerable time, being done entirely by hand. Moreover even when the hair has been wound on to the holder, it is necessary to wind over the hair, strip material as a protecting medium and/or containing certain solutions or preparations for treating it, to fix the wave.

This invention has for its object to provide a hand appliance by means of which the hair can be automatically wound on to the holder.

According to the present invention, a hair dressing and winding appliance comprises a hand frame adapted to be rotated by hand or in a machine, and means adapted detachably to receive and support in the frame a curling pin or holder during the winding on or curling operation, which frame is provided with hair receiving elements, by means of which a length of hair to be wound on to the holder can be secured in position and guided or otherwise fed in an axial direction along the holder during winding rotation of the winding device.

In operation, a single tress or two tresses of hair are fastened to the holder by insertion in the hair receiving elements of the winding device, and after threading it through the appropriate guides, the winding device is caused to rotate so that it is wound on the holder which remains stationary.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view of curling rod or holder with a tress of hair engaged therewith. Figure 2 is a sectional elevation of the winding device of this invention with the rod or holder in position and prior to winding the hair on to the rod. Figure 3 is a transverse section drawn to a larger scale, on the line 3-3 of Figure 2, but showing the holder in the open position. Figure 4 is a bottom plan view of a hair receiving element carried by a sleeve which is shown in section.

In the drawings T indicates generally a tress of hair shown attached to a dummy head H but in practice the operator would pick up a tress of the persons hair in a similar manner.

Referring now to Figure 1 the curling rod or holder on to which the hair is wound preparatory to being subjected to a permanent waving treatment comprises a spindle I having a flanged arcuate head 2. On the head 2 is pivotally secured a lip piece 3 having a tongue 4 adapted to cooperate with asimilar tongue y5 on the fixing portion of the flange 2. In use the root end of a tress of hair is first engaged between the tongue 4, 5 of the interlocking tongues where it is automatically gripped.

The spindle I of the holder is now inserted into the hollow interior of a sleeve IIJ forming part of the winding member shown in Figure 2. This member essentially comprises a lateral arm or arms, indicated generally at Il, into which the tress of Vhair T is passed being releasably held therein so that by causing the sleeve'l to rotate about the spindle I, the hair will 'be wound on to the spindle of the curler at the same time as it is withdrawn from the hair receiving element or elements I I.

In Figure 2, for clearness only, one tress is shown being wound on to the spindle but if desired two separate tresses can be passed between the lips 4, 5 on the under side, of which they part and are entered one in each of the arms II.

Each arm or hair receiving element, which, as shown, is preferably set at an acute angle to the axis of rotation may be in the form of a tube through which the tress of hair is threaded.

For convenience in inserting the hair in the interior of the tube, the latter comprises inner and outer sleeves I2, I3, each provided with a longitudinal slot I4, I5 normally out of registration with one another so that the hair is totally enclosed in the interior of the tube. The two sleeves I2 and I3 may be held in their closed position by spring means including a coil spring I6 one end of which is anchored to a lug I'I on the outer sleeve I3, the other end being attached to a stud I E fast with the inner sleeve I2 and extending through an L-shaped. slot I9 in the outer sleeve. In the position shown in Figure 2 the slots I4. I5 are closed but by moving the stud I8 along the slot and into the circumferentially extending portion I9 thereof, the inner sleeve l2 can be rotated to bring the slot of the inner sleeve opposite the opening in the outer sleeve as shown in Figure 3.

2| is a hand grip to enable the device to be rotated by hand. A bracket 24 mounting a bobbin 25 of coloured tape or string may be provided so that the hair as it is Wound on to the curler can be bound in position.

What I claim is:

In a hair dressing appliance, a hair former, a winding member including a tubular portion to receive the former and which is free to slide and rotate thereon as hair is wound onto said former, and hair receiving and guiding means fast on the winding member for guiding the hair into position on the former as the Winding member revolves and slides, said guiding means including two independent hair receiving elements for Winding separate tresses of hair on to the former, which elements are disposed on oppositesides of the Winding member and set at an angle less than a right angle tothe winding axis, each element being of tubular construction and comprising inner and outer tubular members each provided with a longitudinal opening, a stud attached to said inner tubular member, an L- shaped slot in said outer tubular member with which said stud rcci-operates, and a spring anchored at one end to the stud and at its other end to the outer tubular member for normally maintaining the openings in the tubular members out of registry with one another.

CHARLES FREDERICK HARDY.

REFERENCES CITED The'following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,290,440 Wells Jan. 7, 1919 20. 1,662,286 Shelton Mar. 13, 1928 1,354,523r Napolitan Apr. 19, 1932 1,858,613 Bender May 17, 1932 

